Hey Everyone, I am hoping for some advice. I have a week long hunt coming up, but during this week, my Bull Elk Tag, Antlerless Elk Tag and my Buck Deer tag all overlap. I HIGHLY doubt I will fill everything (be lucky to get anything), but I want to get thoughts on this JUST in case.
Let's say I get one of the three early in the week. I could pack it out and get it home but that will burn days of my hunt week (planning to camp all week up there). Plus to be honest I don't have a cooler/fridge big enough to just hang it, so I will have to fully butcher/process it and get it all vacuum sealed and put in freezers, which will take days away from the hunt. So, it would be better if I could quarter it and let it hang in game bags while I keep hunting, BUT the problem is, we are having unusually warm weather here in Utah, and it's supposed to be 70s-80s during the day and 50-60 at night the entire week!!!
There is a large body of water next to where I am hunting, so I even contemplated putting the game bags in plastic bags and submerging them, but from what I can tell even the water temp is still like 60 deg!
So, what are your thoughts, do I have any options to stay up all week hunting or are these temps going to just spoil anything and I need to just cut my losses and get whatever animal I get first off the mountain and in my freezer?
Let's say I get one of the three early in the week. I could pack it out and get it home but that will burn days of my hunt week (planning to camp all week up there). Plus to be honest I don't have a cooler/fridge big enough to just hang it, so I will have to fully butcher/process it and get it all vacuum sealed and put in freezers, which will take days away from the hunt. So, it would be better if I could quarter it and let it hang in game bags while I keep hunting, BUT the problem is, we are having unusually warm weather here in Utah, and it's supposed to be 70s-80s during the day and 50-60 at night the entire week!!!
There is a large body of water next to where I am hunting, so I even contemplated putting the game bags in plastic bags and submerging them, but from what I can tell even the water temp is still like 60 deg!
So, what are your thoughts, do I have any options to stay up all week hunting or are these temps going to just spoil anything and I need to just cut my losses and get whatever animal I get first off the mountain and in my freezer?
